Vomit Happens

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Specializes in School Nursing.

So I guess I am in the "Dog House" with a certain teacher. She sent me a student who "has gas". No breakfast. No fever. Color is good. Chatty and active.

I give them some Saltines. Rest, observation x 25 minutes. No vomiting.

Send them back to class and they promptly vomit in the trashcan.

Teachers rushes him back to the clinic and gives me the "Stink eye". No words....just the look........

I would never have sent a student back if I knew they would vomit. It happens. Get over it.

Student went home after two hours of trying to reach the parent. Ugh !!!!!

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ummmmm.... oh well......they didn't vomit in your office..you are not a psychic..the teacher needs to get over herself.

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Specializes in Home Health,Dialysis, MDS, School Nurse.

If I sent home every kid that held the possibility of vomitus, there wouldn't be anyone here :no:

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

How dare you come to work without your crystal ball!! Seriously, that teacher's got to get a grip on reality.

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Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.

Well, daaaang, at least the kid made it to the trash can! I can remember a few times in school when fellow students threw up on their desks, on the floor...

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Specializes in School Nursing.

Wow- a kid can vomit in the classroom and will still get sent back to class if there is no fever and student is feeling better. It takes fever and/or multiple episodes of witnessed vomiting to get a kid sent home, generally. We serve breakfast in the classroom to all students and it's not unusual for the milk or something else we serve to not 'sit' right. All students also get free lunch as well, and again, not uncommon for lunch to not sit right... there has to be other s/s of a virus or stomach bug before I send them home. Teachers know this so I don't get the stink eye too often. ;)

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I'm soft. Usually a true vomit, not a spit up of milk or I threw up in my mouth will get the kid a ticket home.

Witnessed vomit.

If not witnessed, kid must have symptoms of illness .

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Specializes in IMC, school nursing.

Why didn't you give saltines?

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Um, vomit happened three times before 10:00 this morning… Welcome back :)

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Specializes in School nursing.

Ah, vomit. I love it when like two students vomit in one day and I get asked "is there something going around?" I usually smile and say a variation of: "Vomit is year-round; it never takes a vacation and often comes without warning. Vomit just is."

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Ah, vomit. I love it when like two students vomit in one day and I get asked "is there something going around?" I usually smile and say a variation of: "Vomit is year-round; it never takes a vacation and often comes without warning. Vomit just is."

^Zen Vomit.

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